In a powerful celebration of excellence, innovation, and transformative impact, City People proudly presents Adetumi Adewumi with the 2022 Data Science and Analytics Impact Award, recognizing her trailblazing contribution to predictive analytics and digital risk management.
Adetumi emerges as the standout recipient from a highly competitive pool of over 100,000 applicants, solidifying her place among the most influential minds in data science across Africa and beyond. Her selection underscores the groundbreaking relevance of her work and its potential to shape the future of business and technology.
She received this prestigious award for her contribution to the field of IT and her contributions through research. An example is her paper “Advanced Data Analytics and Business Intelligence: Building Resilience in Risk Management,” which reshapes how organizations confront cyber threats, manage uncertainty, and build digital resilience. Her work is widely regarded as a blueprint for how data science, artificial intelligence (AI), and business intelligence (BI) can strategically align to prevent disruption and drive innovation in high-risk environments.
City People, Nigeria’s leading soft-sell and lifestyle publication, honours Adetumi not just for academic brilliance but for delivering real-world solutions to some of the most pressing challenges businesses face today. Her paper, published in the International Journal of Science and Research Archive, introduces a proactive framework for risk management—one that leverages real-time data, predictive models, and AI-powered anomaly detection to outpace evolving threats.
“This award is about celebrating impact—not just theory, but transformation. Adetumi Adewumi exemplifies what it means to use data science and analytics for the good of businesses and society,” says Wale Lawal, a Senior editor from City People’s editorial board.
Adetumi is already a dual Master’s graduate from the University of Illinois at Chicago, with deep professional roots in the Nigerian energy sector. As a former Data Analyst at the Transmission Company of Nigeria, she leads data-driven strategies that boost customer engagement and operational efficiency. Her experience fuses academic depth with field-tested execution, making her research not only timely but incredibly relevant to today’s digital economy.
City People notes that Adetumi’s work stands out for its extraordinary ability to fuse artificial intelligence and business intelligence into a unified risk resilience strategy, something many organizations are still striving to achieve. Her approach transcends traditional analytics by creating systems that not only detect potential threats but also recommend proactive measures to mitigate them before they escalate. A defining element of her research is the advancement of explainable AI and the automation of breach response within cybersecurity frameworks. By championing AI systems that are transparent and capable of real-time interventions, she elevates trust and reliability in digital defense mechanisms—areas of growing concern in today’s high-risk digital climate.
Beyond the technical brilliance, Adetumi’s work delivers concrete, actionable recommendations tailored for both public institutions and private enterprises navigating the complex journey of digital transformation. Her insights empower organizations to not just adopt technology, but to integrate it in a way that builds long-term resilience, agility, and growth. Most significantly, her research is grounded in the belief that data should not be the preserve of a few but a tool accessible to many. By emphasizing accessibility, scalability, and strategic foresight, she democratizes the use of data, making it a driver of sustainability, equity, and progress across industries and sectors. In honoring her, City People acknowledges a bold thinker whose work is already shaping how tomorrow’s institutions prepare for—and thrive in—an uncertain world.
Her award marks a turning point in how Nigerian excellence in tech and research is being recognized on the global stage. For City People, this is more than a recognition—it is a signal that innovation lives here, and the future is data-driven. And in that future, Adetumi Adewumi is already leading.
